shayella-reyes:

ironlocked:

venom.

• 31% on Rotten Tomatoes
• 35% on Metacritic
• 2/5 on Empire
• 1/5 stars on the Rolling Stone
• “a massively overqualified cast”
• “What went wrong? Everything, actually.”
• “No one has to fake a bad review of this”
• “The ending suggests that there’s a…sequel…Audiences have suffered enough.”

Also:

• 95% of Google users liked it
• 89% of Rotten Tomato audiences liked it
• The average audience rating was 4.4/5 (18,619 reviews)
• My mother, who doesn’t usually like superhero movies, says that this movie deserves at least 80% and that’s really something

Never listen to professional reviews. They’re often based around old-fashioned principles of film that nobody really cares about these days. Critics don’t know the current audience, and are still stuck in the late ‘90s/early 2000s. That doesn’t sound too long ago, but it’s literally a new generation of moviegoers and a millennial audience that is itching for change.

tl;dr most professional critics are baby boomers who don’t know what the majority likes anymore.